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Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1937-07-02

Ohio Jewish Chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1937-07-02, page 01

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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER! FOR THE JEWISH HOME
Volume XVII—No. 184
COLUMBUS, OHIO, JULY 2, 1937
Per Year $3.00; Per Copy 101
Strictly Confidential
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
.Nazi Business
Thc Italian shipping lines operating out of American ports np likee Mus¬ solini's Jcw-biiiting.. .the day after II Duce'.i paper published a blast against Zionism, the Italian lines, re¬ ceived scores of cancellations from tourists who had booked'passage, for Europe and Palestine.'..The French Line, incidentally, got most of this business...Speaking of tourists, it might pay to look into thc whispers that Cook's Tours discourage Jews from taking its planned tours...Thc Polish Student and Alumni of Amer¬ ica must li<ivc forgotten President Roosevelt's remark in his second inaugural address about Poland's plan to force the emigration of Jews, for it gave FDR its first annual award for outstanding service. ..Now hc hits awards frpm Jews and.Poles...What a conibination.l... .Wonder who's re¬ sponsible for the l.iiuii cadets of thc United States Naval Academymaking art'"educational" tour of Germany... Has Nazi propaganda wormed its way into our Navy?...If you want lo meet Fritz Kuhn, Nazi fuehrer in America, you can see him at Nazi headquarters in New York any Thursday night between 5 and 8 P. M....That's when hc gets reports... The' new Nazi consul in San Fran¬ cisco (we told you last week hc was the murderer of Mathias Erzberger) also had a hand in the Reichstag fire trial...Most bf the other high Nazis who put the torch lo the Reichstag were shot in tho 1034, purge, but Con¬ sul Killinger was spared because of his friendship with Goering... Ether Waves
Carlo and Ncllo Rossclli, the Italian anti-Fascists, who were" nUirdered in
Senator Borah Again Lashes Nazi and Fascist Activities in America
WASHINGTON D. C. (WNS)—1 Lashing out at Fascism atid Nazism for the second time in two months, Senator William E. Borah told the Senate during the debate on tho |C63,- 000,000 War Department appropria¬ tion bill that thousands of young peo¬ ple in every large city north of the Mason and Dixon line are- being "trained in disloyalty to the American Government'* by N^zi and- Fascist propagandists.'x "Throughout the large, cities of the north there arc night drillings and night teaching of luni- drcds, even thousands, of. thc young in this country in di-sloyalty to, thc Americin flag," he saitj. "Of ijoursc, when you speak to them about it, their leader.^; thc traitors who arc at the head of thc organization, ,will tell,you there is no incompatibility between their loyalty to Fascism and Nazism and loyalty to the American Govern¬ ment. Evefyoiie knows that tliat cannot possibly be true, and it cannot be thought to be true by any man pos¬ sessed ot intellectual integrity." . Asserting that "no man.can be loyal to American institutions 6r loyal to the American flag and believo in a single fundamental principle of Fas¬ cism and Nazism," Senator Borah
accused those preaching' those isms of being "disloyal regardless of what they may say to the public." He. said too, that "the teachings, which arc being given these young people train them to disbelieve in our form of government and train them to believe in loyalty to a form of government which is at war with our system of gbvcrnmcnt. That is going on all over the country. It is the same kind of duplicity, the same kind of decep¬ tion that is lacing practiced by Fas¬ cism and Nazism internationally now in the war against Spain. I ciU at¬ tention to it for the reason that wc ought to realize n.itional1y here at home, and internationally, that thc basic principles of Fascism and. Nazism arc deception and duplicity, are professing ' to . do what they are not doing, or professing thc contrary of what they p^-opose to do. So here in this Country our youth arc being poisoned with the doctrine which is at war with every principle upon which these institutions rest. And lhey Will say to you that they are not leaching doctrines inimical to the principles of the American Govern¬ ment. It. is simply a method of deception."
Synagogue Vandalism and
Catholic Attack on Jews
Stir Cincinnati
CINCINNATI (WNS)—Vandal- ism at the Plum Street Temple, once occupied by the late Dr. Isaac M. Wise, father of Reform Judaism in America, and an attack on Jews as Communists by the Rev. Dr. Edward I A. Freking, national secretary of thc Paris, were sons of an old Jewish | Catholic Students' Mission Crusade,
family from Tuscany...Their father was a co-worker of Mazzini, the Italian patriot.. .The Rossclli brothers \vere nephcws-in-law of Mrs. Fred- crick Nathan, New Vork civics leader, and nephews of a former Jew¬ ish mayor of Rome, Signor Nathan .. .The crime for 'which " Helmuth Hirsch was beheaded in Germany was not, as reported, a plot to assassinate Nazi leaders, but an alleged attempt to; smuggle munitions to the'Loyal¬ ists in Spain...It was Hirsch's al¬ leged relati<ms with thc Loyalists that enraged Hitler.. .The Near Eastern agent of Krupps, the German muni¬ tions firm,, was .tintil. recently a non- Aryan German, by thc name of Lud¬ wig Bamberger...The British Labor Party is giving a lot ot attention to a plan for its rehabilitation drafted by Emanuel .Shimvell, former min¬ ister of mines...Take it from Dr. Vazsony, Jewish member of the Hun¬ garian parliament, but the Hungarian Jews are not related. to any other Jews, nor have they any racial tics with them...'Vazsony claims that the Hungarian Jews are the descendants of the Chabares, a Central Asiatic tribe of horsemen, who came to Hun¬ gary together with the Magyars thousands of years ago, and adopted Judaism shortly before' settling in Hungary . . . Hence, says Vazsony, there are no Hungarian Jews; but only "Chabares of Mosaic faith"...Resi¬ dents of Honolulu are still talking about the foriner Anierican soldier who ripped down a swastika from the .flagpole of a German store, while the German consul was .shopping there... Thisvnnd That
'Twould be interesting to know how much Lawrence Marx, named by the Treasury Department as one ot the gcnilemcn who avoided income tax payment by buying fictitious in¬ surance policie,s, gave to the. New York Federation, of which he's presi- deiit, out of the dough he saved... Albert Levy, editor of La Vara, the organ of Sepliardic Jews in America, is touring the country to gather ma¬ terial for a history of the American Sephardim.. .The Temple on the Heights in Cleveland has joined the Zionist Organizatipn of America col¬ lectively. ..There's a barber shop on New York's East Side that adver¬ tises "Haircut—Strictly Kosher':... Don't pay any attention to those ru¬ mors aboiit the-Zionist Congresp be¬ ing postponed or called off...They're just plain hooey...One of the hottest blast! againat Nazi Germany to Lmanate from Christian sources is due to be 'unloosed by the World Con¬ ference on Church, State and Society, which meets in Oxford, England, July 12...
How They Voted
Our agents report that during the .election of delegates to the Zionist (CoHliuutd on page 2) •
stirred Cincinnati Jewry last week. The vandalism to one of the most celebrated synagogues in America took thc form of 12 electric light bulbs filled with red oil staiii which were thrown against the building. The damag/, estimated at #300, has been repaired. Dr. Freking, a resi¬ dent of Cincinnati, said in an address before the annual conference of the Cincinnati Archdioccsan Federation of the National: Council of Catholic Women that Catholici* cannot under¬ stand why so many Jews should choose Communism in preference to democracy.
'We can sympathize with our Jew¬ ish fellow citizens because Catholics, too, arc suffering persecution in Ger- inany,'- he said, "and we unequivocally condemn the persecution of religious groups. We must, however, deplore thc fact that in the United States so many Jewish spokesmen for Commu¬ nism are. Jews in name only, having abandoned the faith of their fathers, their belief in a personal God and their respect for an objective cpde of morals." Dr. Freking warned that while Catholics have suffered under both Nazism and Communism, and oppose both, "they most certainly will not support Ihe Jews in fighting Nazism .if, by' such support, they arc indirectly' helping lo propagate Com¬ munism. It is my honest opinion that the surest way of bringing about a Jewish persecution in the United States is for the Jews to continue to support and help propagate the Com¬ munist cause both at home and abroad."
Breslau Jews to Set Up
Own Court; See Step
Towards Ghetto
BERLIN (WNS)—An important step toward the ghettipization of Ger¬ man Jewry was taken by the Jewish community bf Breslau when it decided to establish its own beth din to settle disputes between Jews. It is «ndei> stood that if the court begins tb func¬ tion it will displace the Nazi courts in all cases involving legal matters between Jews and, Jews. It is under¬ stood that if the Breslau beth din, the first of its kind in modern Ger¬ many, is successful, similar courts will be established in all other Jew¬ ish communities throughout Ihe coun¬ try. The object of the court is to remove Jewish legal matters from Ihe jurisdiction of the Nazi courts from which Jewish attorneys are excluded and where Nazi prosecutors exploit Jewish cases for anti-Semitism.
The Jewish community meanwhile was cut off' from a major source of information, about ' Jewish affairs when tiie secret police instructed the Jucdische Rundschau, the leading Jewish paper, to discontinue the. re-
Chairman of Cemetery Dedication Event July 11
Christian Century' Warns
Democracy No Guarantee
To Jews of America
NEW YORK (WNS)—"Dcmoc racy' cannot guarantee our Jewish brethren against the emergence of a crisis in which the' prejudice and anger generated by tlieir Ibng resist¬ ance to the democratic process will flare up to. their great hurt and to the humiliation and'disgrace of'bur Christian faith," Dr. Charles Mor¬ rison writes, in the current issue bf The Christian Century, in an article entitled "Judaism' and Democracy." Conceding unreservedly Ihc Jews* right to their faith and the practice of it. Dr. .Morrison warns that in a 'democracy lhey have no right "to remove their faith from the normal influences of the democratic process by insulating it behind the walls of a racial aiid cultural solidarity." Hold¬ ing that "a permanent racial status is incompatible with democracy," Dr. Morrison finds the root cause of the Jewish problem in "the Jew's im¬ memorial and pertinacious obsession with an illusion, the illusion that his race, his people, arc the object of the special favor of God, , who requires the maintenance of their racial integ¬ rity and separateness as Iho medium which, soon or late, will be performed some mighty act; involving human destiny." Blaming the Jew.(» them¬ selves for grpwing anti-Semitism, he says that "unregcnerate human na¬ ture bluntly says, in effect: it this racial group feels that way .tbput it¬ self, and insists upon living apart in biplogicai and cultural as well as r^ ligious aloofness, let it take the con¬ sequences." Hc likens the Jewish positioii in American democracy to .'1,000,000 Germans "lield together In racial and cultural unity by'the Hitler doctrine of the folkic soul, and frahs- ported to America, established in our democratic land as the Jews now are, and determined to maintain their racial doctrine and their racial ^epa. rateness."
printing ot news dealing with Jewish institutions from the Nazi press. If this order is not modified or Voided the Jews will be at. a loss , for news of Jewish affairs because the Runds¬ chau has: been dependent on reprinted items. :
149 Anti-Nazi Groups Vote to Unify Activities
NEW YORK~(WNS) —Unifica¬ tion ot their boycott and anti-Nazi activities under the auspices bf the Nbn-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League was voted by representatives of 149 or¬ ganizations meeting in conference hei;e. The conference also voted to lake steps to win the active support ot Protestant and Catholic organiza¬ tions and approved the sending of a delegation to the World Rally Against Fascism and Anti-Semitism to be. held in Paris on September 10th. . Speak¬ ers included Samuel Untermyer, Mrs, Mark Harris, Joseph Barry, Catholic layman of Newark; Cyrir Q. Hen- riques, vice-chairman of the Jewish Representative Council of London i Gerhard Segar, former member of the German Reichstag; and ' Antonio Reina, editor of Justicia, Spanish newspaper. '
Arthur Cloldberg
A LL plans have been completed for the dedicatioii. ceremonies of the new Agudath Acliitn Cemetery which will take i>lace Siinilay, July 11, at '2:00 p. m. A most impressive pro¬ gram, as befits a solemn event such as this, lias been prepared by Rabbi Mordecai Hirschsprjing and the pro¬ gram committee. ^Mr. .Arthur: Gold¬ berg has been app'bintod as chairman of the day's event.; Adequate seating accommodations and a speakers' plat¬ form will be erected especially for this occasion.
The program will begin in front of thc Cemetery gate with the ceremony of the presentatiori (if the key, and will be followed % a most solemn and awe-inspiring (procession to all thc four corners (itside of the gate), thus sanctifying:! ::'thc cemetery and dedicating it as Hxily Ground, "Dos Ileilige Ort." ' ,
Thc procession will be led by Rabbi M. Hirschsprung, \vho has prepared a special ritual for the occasion, with appropriate praycr^.and fsalms.to be read at each comer, and with selected hymns of the Slichos of the High Holidays tb be chanted by Cantbr Ph. Gellman and' his trained choir. The Rabbi and Cantor will be followed ih the procession by the members of the Chevrah Kaddisha, the officers of the Agudath Achim congregation, the Board of' Trustees, aiid the entire as¬ sembly. This part, of the program will be concluded with the unveiling of a plaque containing the names of the living officers of Ihe Agudath Achim congregation as well as of its deceased Chevrah Kaddisha members. All those in atti:ndance will then as¬ sume their respective seats, and the second part of the program -will be¬ gin with an invociiliou and a hymn to be followed by introductory remarks of the president of thc congregation, Walter Katz, who will introduce Ar¬ thur Goldberg ai chairman bf the day. Remarks will be made also by Abe Goldberg, chairman of the Chevrah Kaddisha, and by J. Kra¬ kowitz, pliairmaii of the Board of Trustees. The principal address will be made by an outstanding. out-;ot- town Rabbi to be announced in next week's Chronicle. 'All local rabbis will also be :fornially invited to par¬ ticipate ill the program.
One of the most impressive fea¬ tures of Ihe prograin will be the me¬ morial service which will be held for all thc departed members of the Agu¬ dath Achim' congregation . whose names are inscrilied in the congrega¬ tion's Memorial Ilopk, which is used during the Holiday Yizkor services. Cantor Gellman will make a Haz- karah (El Molei Rachamlm) and' the names of all deceased members will be read. ,
In conformity with the rules laid down by Rabbinic authorities of past generations, Rabbi Hirschsprung will at today's Sabballi services proclaim next Thursday, July. 8, as a rainpr fast-day for the Chevrah Kaddisha. On that day at 1 P. M., Yom Kippur Kbton services and Slichos will be held at the Agudath Achim synagogue.
American Zionists Going tof
London to Discuss
Political Crisis
NEW YORK (WNS)-Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Louis Lipsky and a munbcr of other American Zionist leaders to be named within the next week, will leave-for London in a tort- iiipht to consult with . Dri Qiaim Weizmann, president of' the World Zionist Organization, and David Ben Gurion, chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive, and to lay before them the attitude of American Zion¬ ists on tlic critical political siiu.-ition in Palestine, in ildvaiice of the World Zioriist Congress. This decision was reached at thc closing business session of the 'lOlli annual convention ot the Zionist Organization of America in response to a' c.iblc<l invitation frpm Dr. Weizmann and Mr. Ben Gurion to Dr. Wise and other leading Ameri¬ can Zionists to hasten to London. The invitation wa.'j interpreted as a speedy reply on the part of the World Zionist leadership to the public ex¬ pression of regret by Dr. Wise, president of the Z. O. A., that the Zionist leaders in London and Jeru¬ salem had failed to call upon leaders of American Zionism to assist them in warding off imininent threats of violation of the Palestine Mandate. , The text of the cable reads as fol¬ lows: "London—Fortieth American Zipnist Convention meets at clcveiith hour before the taking bf decisions vital to the future of the Jewish people and homeland stop in a world distracted by hatred and violence we are facing a period which will call forth all our'reserves-our fprtitude determinatipn and statesmanship step tpday more .than .ever there is need for strpiig united Zionism with deep belief in our future and in the difli- cult days that lie ahead the voice and support of Jewry in.great American democracy may be decisive stop please convey to the conventipn pur heart¬ iest greetings and best wishes fpr suc¬ cess in their delibcratipns stop we greatly hope that immediately follow¬ ing the close of the convention it may be possible for Dr. Wise and other leading colleagues to make themselves free to come to London to give us the benefit of their: advice and assistance. Weizmann, .Ben Gurion."
Supplementing its unanimous it- election of Dr.: Wise to the presi¬ dency, the convention re-elected Mor¬ ris Rptlienberg tp the chairmanship of the .administrative committee of 100 by acclamation and unanimously elected Judge William M. Lewis of Philadelphia, Rabbi Abba Hiljel Sil¬ ver of Cleveland, Elihu D. Stone of Boston and Dr. Israel Goldstciii of New Vork as vic-e-presidents.' The new executive connnittce, in addition fo tlic officers, remains virtually un¬ changed. The convention paid a spe¬ cial tribute to Louis Lipsky by ac¬ cording him unanimous re-election to thc executive., The following were elected honorary vice-presidents of the Z; 0. A.; Prof. Gustavo Klaus- ner bf St. Louis, Dr. Alex S. Wolf of St. Louis, Rabbi Solomon Gold¬ man of Chicago, Max .Shulman of Chicago, Joe Wcingarten of Houston, Texas, and Rabbi Barnett R. Brick¬ ner of Cleveland.
By secret ballot the convention named 23 leaders to represent the General Zioiiists of America at the 20th biennial World Zionist Congress opening in Zurich on Augu-st 3d. The deleg,-ites elected wore: Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Rabbi .\Ua Hillcl Silver, Judge Julian W. Mack, Louis Lipsky, Morris Rothenberg, Judge William (Continued on Page 2)
AMERICAN ZIONISTS REJECT _ PALESTINE PARTITION PtiN
Stephen S. Wise Reelected President by Acclamations- American Delegates to Zionist Congress Will De¬ mand Change in Election Regulations and More Participation in Political Activities
RABBI ABBA HILLEL SILVER ROUSES CONVEnITION TO HIGH PITCH OF ENTHUSIASM. WITH ADDRESS
Population Is 120,000
MOSCOW (WNS)—The popula- tion of Birobidjan, the Jewish au¬ tonomous territory, has increased from 50,000 in 1933 to 120,000 in 1837, according to a report made public here by L Valikis, secretary of the Far Eastern Committee of the Com¬ munist Party. The report ireveals that the population of the cily o{ Biro, bfdjan has grown from 7,000 to 26,000.
Labor Leads in Complete Zionist Congress Elec¬ tion Returns
NEW YORK (WNS)—Com¬ plete but unofficial returns from the elections for American dele¬ gates to the World Zionist Con¬ gress leave the party standing unchanged from earlier reports, with Ticket No. 2 of the Labor- lies leading with 36,296 votes. In second place is Ticket No. 1 of ,the General Zionists, with 23,532 votes, followed by Ticket No. 3 of the Mizrachi, with 18,709 votes, Ticket No. 3 of Hadassah with 18,265 votes, and. Ticket No. 4 of the Jewish State Party with 785 votes. The total vote was 97,647. On the basis of this vote the allocatibn of dele¬ gates by parties will be as foi: lows: Labor, 34; General Zion¬ ists, 23; Miirachi, 17: Hadassah, 17; Jewish State Party, 1.
By BERNARD POSTAL
(Sotcial >° Tll° Ohio Jewbh Chranlct>)
HOTEL ROOSF.VELT, NEW YORK (WNS)—Fully endoi'scd by a unaniinous Zionist rank aiid fil'p, a united American Zionist leadership unequivocally rejected thc proposed partition of the Jewish Homeland at the 40th annual convention of tiie Zionist Organization of America. Although it is still problematical whether the Royal Commission will propose the division of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states, American Zionists went on record.against any and all tampering with the present geographic boundaries bf Eretz Is¬ rael. Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president of the Z. 0. A., sounded the keynote of thc anti-partition feeling in liis presidential message when' he de¬ clared that American Zionists would under , no circumstjmces surrender their views regardless bf what the World Zionist Organization may do ill this matter.
, The 40th Z. O. A. conventipn, climaxing 40 years of Zionist activity in Ahierlca, was marked by a new high in attendance and enthusiasm. Clpse to 700 delegates and twice that many guests iind visitors responded unanimously to the exhortations of Dr. Wise, I.ouis Lipsky and Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, all of whom pro¬ claimed the sovereignty of the Zionist movement, in, Jewish life and pledged the Zionists of America to the con¬ tinuance of the upbuilding of Pales¬ tine, come what may in its political destiny.
Dr. Wise's address was^ in many respects thc most significant utterance on fundamental Zionist issues m.idc by an American Zibriist since the re turn of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, to World Zionist leadership. The presi¬ dent of the Z. 0. A. proclaimed the maturity ot the American Zionist or¬ ganization, demanding for it full par¬ ticipation in'all World Zionist affairs. Citing the :United States as a factor of almost equal importance with Great Britain in the present Zioni.<it political crisis, he deplored the fact that World Zionist leadership had apparently minimized, the role of America. He also emphasized that American Zionists shpuld Imve been heard at the Rpyal Commission hear¬ ings, that thc World Zionist Cpn- gress .Shbuld be: held in New Ybrk pr Washingtpn in 'Octpber after,the publicatipn of the Royal Commis¬ sion's i-eport and that the Z: O. A. should no longer be only a fund-rais¬ ing instrument.
It must be noted, however, that at' no time.did Dr. Wise'challenge or criticize the present leadership pf the World Zionist Organization. His complaints were rather in the form of respectful regrets that these vital as¬ pects of the contemporary Zionist situation were not sufficiently appre¬ ciated in London and Jerusalem. He employed a similar tone in scoring— without naming anyone—those Zion¬ ists who arc kiipwn to be flirting with the acceptance of the partition plan. In referring to the recent elec¬ tion of American delegates to the World Zipnist Congress^ Dr. Wise intimated that if thc Congress did not change the present system of elec¬ tions he would withdraw from fund- raising activities for Palestine and also from active leadership in the Zipnist prganizatipu.
That Dr. Wise expressed the pplicy of a united Zionist leadership in America was confirmed when Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland spoke with indignation about the .proposed "microscopic" Jewish state and when Louis Lipsky re-echoed his senti¬ ments in a brilliant speech.
In the course of his address Dr. Wise declared that the outcome of the Congress elections in America would have been different "had our comrades bf the Poale Zion and the Mizrachi devoted their service to the United Palestine Appeal with the as¬ siduity with which we of the Zionist Organization gave ourselves to its service" and emphasized that "the elections would not have taken place if party advantage had meant less, and unity and effectiveness in the in¬ terest of our imperiled cause had
meant more." He insisted that at Ihe Zurich Congress "we ' insist^ that the. rules shall: not again make-possible— perhaps inevitable—the abortive re¬ sults of the recent election. The Z. O. A. is nnt tP be penalized because its majpr devotion is iiPt to the sale of shekolim."
Revicwhig tlie political situatipn, he deplored, thc fact that American' Zionists had yielded their better judg¬ ment and not insisted on appearing before the Royal Commission, and declared that "the time has come for us to consider whether in the light of present circumstances it is not fPr us at times tb reach .decisions which are not to be reyersedior vetoed by Lon¬ don or Jerusalem." He stressed the need of common counsel and discus¬ sion in thc present situation, outlined the important influence Aincrican Zionist leaders exercised last .summer in London in averting thc danger of a' stoppage of Jewish ¦ immigration' to Palestine and suggested that with re¬ gard to the political situation Ameri¬ can Zionism had, reached a, "maturity justifying independent action' without arousing any feeling of disloyalty to the World Zionist Congress or the Jewish Agency Executive, whatever their ppsition , might be.'! , On the matter,of partition, he said "a par¬ titioned, divided, truncated Palestine would no more be Palestine than Eng¬ land would be England without Scotr land and Wales," and branded Zion¬ ists who lean toward acceptance bf partition as "histrionic hotheads" who are mbre avid fbr the name "Jewish state" and the reality of a Jewish National Home.
The oratorical highlight of the con¬ vention was the impassioned speech of Rabbi Silver, who bitterly assailed ¦ thc "failures, blunders, inaction and non-cooperation"' of the Palestine government and warned that "a par¬ tition of Palestine will make of every Jew a Revlsionfst." Asserting that "to: whatever microscopic proportions the Jewish Homeland in Palestine will finally be reduced, it will still be a red flag in the eyes of Arab irre¬ dentists," Rabbi Silver emphasized that "to the problem of Palestine to¬ day there is no other logical solutioii than that which the Zibnists have been advocatuig ever since 1917—a complete and loyal fulfillment fif the terms ol the Mandate." Afjeir reviewing the successive shrinking of the Jewish Homeland and mentioning the fact that Britain has hinted the Royal Commission's findings would be im¬ plemented by force, it necessary, the Cleveland r.ibbi said "in all humility, wc beg to state that forc6 lias never intimidated the Jew," and appealed to "the conscience of the English people and to their sense pf fair play." Cpnceding that certain arrangements' in Palestine may ba fprced uppn the Jews, he said "we shall not accept them. We shall continue to work, to advocate, to educate until such time as the just claims of our people are cstahlished. Wc.have no right tp sign away thc historii; claims of the Jewisii people, nor the future of our children. We have no right to^ pledge future generations to a pplitical ar¬ rangement which is in cpnsonance neither with the hbpes, the histpry npr the religibus cpnvictipiis of pur pepple."
. The resplutipn rejecting' partition, which was introduced by Rcbert Szold, recalled the contribution by the United States towards the estab¬ lishment of the Jewish Homeland, emphasized: that in reliance.upon the. solemn cpvenants : undertaken in the Balfour Declaration and the Man¬ date American Jews had made large investments of labor , and capital to the development ot Palestine and then declared that "In view of the crisis in the affairs of the Jewish National Home which threatens the rights of tlie Jewish people as assured by the terms of the Manflate, and in view of reports that the probable, proposals that may be made by His Majesty^s Government to the Permanent Man-, dates Commission of the League, of- Nations, involving modifications of the terms of ie Mandate,°which will prejudice Jewish rights in Palestine
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Jewish Ideals J
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER! FOR THE JEWISH HOME
Volume XVII—No. 184
COLUMBUS, OHIO, JULY 2, 1937
Per Year $3.00; Per Copy 101
Strictly Confidential
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
.Nazi Business
Thc Italian shipping lines operating out of American ports np likee Mus¬ solini's Jcw-biiiting.. .the day after II Duce'.i paper published a blast against Zionism, the Italian lines, re¬ ceived scores of cancellations from tourists who had booked'passage, for Europe and Palestine.'..The French Line, incidentally, got most of this business...Speaking of tourists, it might pay to look into thc whispers that Cook's Tours discourage Jews from taking its planned tours...Thc Polish Student and Alumni of Amer¬ ica must li stood that if the court begins tb func¬ tion it will displace the Nazi courts in all cases involving legal matters between Jews and, Jews. It is under¬ stood that if the Breslau beth din, the first of its kind in modern Ger¬ many, is successful, similar courts will be established in all other Jew¬ ish communities throughout Ihe coun¬ try. The object of the court is to remove Jewish legal matters from Ihe jurisdiction of the Nazi courts from which Jewish attorneys are excluded and where Nazi prosecutors exploit Jewish cases for anti-Semitism.
The Jewish community meanwhile was cut off' from a major source of information, about ' Jewish affairs when tiie secret police instructed the Jucdische Rundschau, the leading Jewish paper, to discontinue the. re-
Chairman of Cemetery Dedication Event July 11
Christian Century' Warns
Democracy No Guarantee
To Jews of America
NEW YORK (WNS)—"Dcmoc racy' cannot guarantee our Jewish brethren against the emergence of a crisis in which the' prejudice and anger generated by tlieir Ibng resist¬ ance to the democratic process will flare up to. their great hurt and to the humiliation and'disgrace of'bur Christian faith," Dr. Charles Mor¬ rison writes, in the current issue bf The Christian Century, in an article entitled "Judaism' and Democracy." Conceding unreservedly Ihc Jews* right to their faith and the practice of it. Dr. .Morrison warns that in a 'democracy lhey have no right "to remove their faith from the normal influences of the democratic process by insulating it behind the walls of a racial aiid cultural solidarity." Hold¬ ing that "a permanent racial status is incompatible with democracy," Dr. Morrison finds the root cause of the Jewish problem in "the Jew's im¬ memorial and pertinacious obsession with an illusion, the illusion that his race, his people, arc the object of the special favor of God, , who requires the maintenance of their racial integ¬ rity and separateness as Iho medium which, soon or late, will be performed some mighty act; involving human destiny." Blaming the Jew.(» them¬ selves for grpwing anti-Semitism, he says that "unregcnerate human na¬ ture bluntly says, in effect: it this racial group feels that way .tbput it¬ self, and insists upon living apart in biplogicai and cultural as well as r^ ligious aloofness, let it take the con¬ sequences." Hc likens the Jewish positioii in American democracy to .'1,000,000 Germans "lield together In racial and cultural unity by'the Hitler doctrine of the folkic soul, and frahs- ported to America, established in our democratic land as the Jews now are, and determined to maintain their racial doctrine and their racial ^epa. rateness."
printing ot news dealing with Jewish institutions from the Nazi press. If this order is not modified or Voided the Jews will be at. a loss , for news of Jewish affairs because the Runds¬ chau has: been dependent on reprinted items. :
149 Anti-Nazi Groups Vote to Unify Activities
NEW YORK~(WNS) —Unifica¬ tion ot their boycott and anti-Nazi activities under the auspices bf the Nbn-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League was voted by representatives of 149 or¬ ganizations meeting in conference hei;e. The conference also voted to lake steps to win the active support ot Protestant and Catholic organiza¬ tions and approved the sending of a delegation to the World Rally Against Fascism and Anti-Semitism to be. held in Paris on September 10th. . Speak¬ ers included Samuel Untermyer, Mrs, Mark Harris, Joseph Barry, Catholic layman of Newark; Cyrir Q. Hen- riques, vice-chairman of the Jewish Representative Council of London i Gerhard Segar, former member of the German Reichstag; and ' Antonio Reina, editor of Justicia, Spanish newspaper. '
Arthur Cloldberg
A LL plans have been completed for the dedicatioii. ceremonies of the new Agudath Acliitn Cemetery which will take i>lace Siinilay, July 11, at '2:00 p. m. A most impressive pro¬ gram, as befits a solemn event such as this, lias been prepared by Rabbi Mordecai Hirschsprjing and the pro¬ gram committee. ^Mr. .Arthur: Gold¬ berg has been app'bintod as chairman of the day's event.; Adequate seating accommodations and a speakers' plat¬ form will be erected especially for this occasion.
The program will begin in front of thc Cemetery gate with the ceremony of the presentatiori (if the key, and will be followed % a most solemn and awe-inspiring (procession to all thc four corners (itside of the gate), thus sanctifying:! ::'thc cemetery and dedicating it as Hxily Ground, "Dos Ileilige Ort." ' ,
Thc procession will be led by Rabbi M. Hirschsprung, \vho has prepared a special ritual for the occasion, with appropriate praycr^.and fsalms.to be read at each comer, and with selected hymns of the Slichos of the High Holidays tb be chanted by Cantbr Ph. Gellman and' his trained choir. The Rabbi and Cantor will be followed ih the procession by the members of the Chevrah Kaddisha, the officers of the Agudath Achim congregation, the Board of' Trustees, aiid the entire as¬ sembly. This part, of the program will be concluded with the unveiling of a plaque containing the names of the living officers of Ihe Agudath Achim congregation as well as of its deceased Chevrah Kaddisha members. All those in atti:ndance will then as¬ sume their respective seats, and the second part of the program -will be¬ gin with an invociiliou and a hymn to be followed by introductory remarks of the president of thc congregation, Walter Katz, who will introduce Ar¬ thur Goldberg ai chairman bf the day. Remarks will be made also by Abe Goldberg, chairman of the Chevrah Kaddisha, and by J. Kra¬ kowitz, pliairmaii of the Board of Trustees. The principal address will be made by an outstanding. out-;ot- town Rabbi to be announced in next week's Chronicle. 'All local rabbis will also be :fornially invited to par¬ ticipate ill the program.
One of the most impressive fea¬ tures of Ihe prograin will be the me¬ morial service which will be held for all thc departed members of the Agu¬ dath Achim' congregation . whose names are inscrilied in the congrega¬ tion's Memorial Ilopk, which is used during the Holiday Yizkor services. Cantor Gellman will make a Haz- karah (El Molei Rachamlm) and' the names of all deceased members will be read. ,
In conformity with the rules laid down by Rabbinic authorities of past generations, Rabbi Hirschsprung will at today's Sabballi services proclaim next Thursday, July. 8, as a rainpr fast-day for the Chevrah Kaddisha. On that day at 1 P. M., Yom Kippur Kbton services and Slichos will be held at the Agudath Achim synagogue.
American Zionists Going tof
London to Discuss
Political Crisis
NEW YORK (WNS)-Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Louis Lipsky and a munbcr of other American Zionist leaders to be named within the next week, will leave-for London in a tort- iiipht to consult with . Dri Qiaim Weizmann, president of' the World Zionist Organization, and David Ben Gurion, chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive, and to lay before them the attitude of American Zion¬ ists on tlic critical political siiu.-ition in Palestine, in ildvaiice of the World Zioriist Congress. This decision was reached at thc closing business session of the 'lOlli annual convention ot the Zionist Organization of America in response to a' c.iblc° Tll° Ohio Jewbh Chranlct>)
HOTEL ROOSF.VELT, NEW YORK (WNS)—Fully endoi'scd by a unaniinous Zionist rank aiid fil'p, a united American Zionist leadership unequivocally rejected thc proposed partition of the Jewish Homeland at the 40th annual convention of tiie Zionist Organization of America. Although it is still problematical whether the Royal Commission will propose the division of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states, American Zionists went on record.against any and all tampering with the present geographic boundaries bf Eretz Is¬ rael. Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president of the Z. 0. A., sounded the keynote of thc anti-partition feeling in liis presidential message when' he de¬ clared that American Zionists would under , no circumstjmces surrender their views regardless bf what the World Zionist Organization may do ill this matter.
, The 40th Z. O. A. conventipn, climaxing 40 years of Zionist activity in Ahierlca, was marked by a new high in attendance and enthusiasm. Clpse to 700 delegates and twice that many guests iind visitors responded unanimously to the exhortations of Dr. Wise, I.ouis Lipsky and Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, all of whom pro¬ claimed the sovereignty of the Zionist movement, in, Jewish life and pledged the Zionists of America to the con¬ tinuance of the upbuilding of Pales¬ tine, come what may in its political destiny.
Dr. Wise's address was^ in many respects thc most significant utterance on fundamental Zionist issues m.idc by an American Zibriist since the re turn of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, to World Zionist leadership. The presi¬ dent of the Z. 0. A. proclaimed the maturity ot the American Zionist or¬ ganization, demanding for it full par¬ ticipation in'all World Zionist affairs. Citing the :United States as a factor of almost equal importance with Great Britain in the present Zioni.«(a 2)